Google News turns 10

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by Garbage • 14 years ago

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randartie• 14 years ago

Google is older than it feels

snogglethorpe2• 14 years ago

Hmm? It feels like Google's been around forever ... the pre-Google past seems almost mythical...

WalterGR2• 14 years ago

Nah. In fact, AltaVista was fine until they stopped supporting exact phrase searches.

tocomment3• 14 years ago

I think google news needs a really easy way to report sites that don't work. I'd say 10% of the time I'll click through to an article and it will throw a paywall up, or simply redirect me, or tell me the article doesn't exist.

Also I'd love the ability to block certain sources e.g., the wall street journal since I'm not interested in reading the just the first four sentences of the article.

vibrunazo3• 14 years ago

You can block any source you want. I have many sources blocked (ie TechCrunch) and others favorited (ie Verge). Just go to settings.

tocomment3• 14 years ago

Where? I clicked the gear icon and there's a section called "adjust sources" but it just has a text box with a plus icon next to it. I tried "adding" wsj.com in the hope I could block it after adding but nothing happens after I click the plus button.

It's a pretty confounding UI really. It makes me feel lost and confused and bad about my life in general ... :-(

richardw• 14 years ago

It's a nice summary of news and they've added a few UI tricks, but I can't help but feel like after 10 years it could be much better than it is. The thing still doesn't know who the hell I am. There's no sense that it's clustering me by interest, or news click history. It might be, but I'm still seeing articles on e.g. ATM charges when I don't live in the US. The election stuff is cool since it affects us all, but I really don't need that much daily analysis of it. It's certainly not reflecting my web search history (or Google reader feed list), which should at least be some kind of option.

E.g. put the Curiosity rover stuff near the top. Info about the Patriot's coach...somewhere else. Same with "Aaron Paul Gushes About Fiancee Lauren Parsekian And His Upcoming Wedding." Is there an algo that thought that was vaguely interesting to me, or is Google just shotgunning articles at us all?

Google News turns 10

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